percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance …, which was enacted in Germany in May 2015. …

Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on … their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good … present study. Germany’s companies still have a long and difficult path ahead of them in order to achieve increased …

highest performing companies in Germany (eight percent). In companies with government-owned shares, the momentum has decreased …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …